Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13
NEWS AND NOTES.

GdS DIT 10 C6uGS u GuOuSdQu pays u uHuC-
some profit in England.
T. L. Frank, q naturalized Chlnaman,
has asked the New Haven authorities to make
! him a constable.
Cincinnati is making an early move to
Obtai I the national conventions, which will be
! held in little over year.
The arrivals at Florida hotels in the
recent season amount to $780, which shows q
! diminution, g. impaired with 1S55-S6, of about
| 1000.
During the years 1888, 1884, 1885 and
! 1856 the government of New South Wales paid
out $I,SO7,46O in bounties for the heads of 1855,
! 7SI rabbits.
There is on exhibition in Atlanta a
| shingle of Georgia pine that has been on a
| smoke house near W Washington, Ca, since 1885.
1t is perfectly sound.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, sister of the
president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,
is worth about SIS, 900 900, and is a very bright
and business like woman.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins paid out $4,000
| for the construction of church at Great Bar
rington, Mass, and she pays the preachers
salary. Her own house there Will cost s., 000,
| 900.
The Lowell Courier claims to have con-
| structed the following ingenious palindrome:
! ''No, 1t is opposition" palindrome is a SEN
tence that reads the same forward and back
! ward
| 1t never rains but it pours on the farm
| of Myron Huskings of Maple Grove, Mich. The
other day. Mrs Haskings gave birth to triplets,
| two of his ewes to five lambs and the family
| cat to seyen kittens.
| So Sharp is the competition between
real estate dealers in Los Angeles, Cal, that
| they offkr remarkable inducements to pur-
| chasers. iOne of them adVertises that every
| purchaser Of lot from him will be VaCcinated
! free of charge.
DR.. Albert Kellogg, who died short
| time ago at Alameda, Cal. was an associate of
Audubon in Texas at the time of It's annexation
! to the UnKed States, and he was the botanist of
| the first government expedition to Alaska
after the purchase of that territory.
! Under the new election laws in Kansas
no tickets gan be distributed or vote solicitors
and workers" allowed within fifty feet of any
polling place. The idea is to prevent the BAN
booZling an6x nlldOzing of voters and to enable
the voter to Gstst ballot without immediate
supervision
A statement prepared at the pension
office shows that during the month of April
i. there were 399 pension certificates Issued,
classified as follows: Original pens ons, 5543;
! increase pensions, 5347; Mexican pensions, 500.
! This is said to be the largest number issued in
any one month in the history of the bureau.
It costs Just $40, 100000 to support the
| twenty two royal prinCely families of Ger
many. 1t costs Turkey $4,000 900 Russia
comes third with an annual cost Of $12,25O,0O0.
England costs $f,50O0OO. Spain, $2,vOO,OOO.
! France pays her President SlS0,OO0 for salary
and household expenses The Swiss Republic
pays its President $4,000 per year.
| The I cent piece is reported to be win
ming favor in New Orleans after many years of
| being discarded. The Times Democrat de-
| clares that "a large number of houses are now
! willing to accept 1t and make their change &C
| cOrdingly, and the public is willing 10 recog
nize that the cent is of some value after all
! Strange to say, as at the beginning of this
| movement, the small dealers still hold back"
| A Milwaukee telegram says: Moritz
Moses, the son OF Jewish rabbi, has surprised
his relatives by joining the Catholic church.
! Last week he was baptised by the Rev. 2.
Decker of the st. Anthony's church, on the
South Side. His father is a highly respected
rabbi at GclheiD, Bavaria, While his sister is
married to NJ. L. GOiSsnEmIdt OF the Adams
Manufacturing Company of this city. The
young man. who is but twenty three years of
age, be ards with an orthodox Catholic family,
and his relatives attribute his step to his rela
lions thereby formed.
An Essex man has the biggest appetite
IN all Massachusetts,, if not in the United
States He eats vast quantities of food, but sll |
to no purpose for he is growing weaker and |
thinner. Doctors have tried In vain to cure |
him, and once, at the advice of one of them, he |
abstained for fifty two hours from eating any |
thing. But the suffering during that period !
was most intense, and, finding he could star |
1t no longer, he started In and ate continually |
for twenty seven minutes as fast as he could |
bolt down the food. Then he walked out into |
the yard, and, still feeling hungry, Immediately |
re-entered the house and repeated the opera |
ton of few moments before. At the end of |
the second meal he was still hungry, but was |
AFRAID 10 eat any more.
An ingenious scheme by which Chinese |
fraudulently evade the provisions of the Chi |
nese restriction act and obtain landing In San !
Francisco has been discovered. A Chinese res |
ident called at the dock where the steamer Cisy |
of Sydney, on which another Chinaman, who
hUl6s no return certificate, is detained, and |
asked permission to give his countryman
loaf of bread. The suspicion of the Gus
toms inspector was aroused and the loaf was
closely examined. 1t was found to contain a
Chinese WI tten document. giving full In
structions TO the detained Cinnamon to be tenn
porarily landed by writ of habeas corpus, and
no to answerq questions regarding his previous
residence, so as to be permitted TO remain In
the United States when taken before the fed
ersl judge, The Chinaman who attempted to
convey the bread aboard the steamer escaped
arrest by flight.
A Paris telegram tells how an order OF
secrecy has been extended to embrace all citi
Zens not actually under arms No one, und er
any pretense, is hereafter to be permitted to !
pass the gates of any fortress or barracks with
ont escort. All supplies brought into
by officers specially detailed for the /
service and passed on under guard. The mo-
tive of this is said to be the recent publication
In German papers Of the exact strength of the
French frontier fortresses, and other facts re-
lating to the disposition of French, troops and
the changes In the arrangements for the de-
tense of the frontier. The thing, 1t seems to US,
shows the inevitability of war between these /
two powers. Indeed, they are at war to-day,
fulness. The only change in the situation wiz
be that of actual hostilities, with their attend
ant bloodshed.